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Education: FG Inaugurates Free E-Learning Website For All Levels - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 22, 2021
Minister of Education Adamu Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Sonny Echono at the inauguration, of the website in Abuja said the website would accommodate two million Nigerians at a time. He explained that the decision was occasioned by the advent of COVID-19 which disrupted learning for two years.
Adamu added that the website, initiated by the ministry had two features-inspire for students and ignite for teachers, saying this would allow both learners and teachers have full access of the website.
The Minister added that the ministry is partnering with the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN to allow only registered teachers have access to the website. He also explained that the ministry focused on primary and secondary education and would be made accessible to rural and communities without internet facilities.
Also, the Director of Information and Communication Technology, ICT in the ministry, Abubakar Isah, said the website would offer both teachers and learners a more beneficiary teaching and learning resources to teach and understand lessons.

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Education: FG Reiterates Commitment To Security, Quality - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 8, 2019
TheMinister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, has pledged the commitment ofthe Federal Government to provide security and quality education for youths inthe country.
TheAssistant Director of Press and Public Relations in the ministry, OdutayoOluseyi said this in a statement in Abuja.
Hesaid the minister spoke during a courtesy visit by the executive members of theNational Association of Nigerian Colleges of Education, NANCE.
Dingyadisaid the provision of security and quality education would engender a peacefulenvironment particularly at the Colleges of Education.
Heattributed the zeal to learn and the peace in the Colleges of Education acrossthe country to a good leadership approach in the institutions.
Accordingto him, teacher education is significant because teachers produce all class ofprofessions in the country.
Hepledged to honour the invitation extended to him by the association on itsforthcoming seminar.

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Education: FG To Prosecute Parents Who Refuse To Enroll Children In School - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
March 18, 2019
TheMinister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu says Nigeria will soon effect policyto prosecute parents who refused to enroll their children of school age inschools across the country.
Adamu madethis known in Abuja on Monday while addressing newsmen during the 9th editionof the Weekend Ministerial briefing.
He saidparents who sabotage the efforts of the government at reducing the number ofout of school children would soon be criminalised and would be made to face thewrath of the law.
Speakingon matching grant and other intervention funds for basic education in Nigeria,the minister said a total of N350 billion had been expended on the sub-sectoras against N360 billion spent by the previous administration.
Adamuadded that in 2015, matching and non-conditional grants disbursements to 15states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory amounted to N68.4billion.
He alsosaid that in 2016, grants disbursements to 29 states and the FCT amounted toN77 billion.

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Education: FG To Sanction Institutions That Give Admissions Outside CAPS - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 1, 2021
Minister of Education Adamu Adamu gave the warning in his address at the 2021 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions held virtually, at the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB headquarters in Abuja.
Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary Sonny Echono, said the any institution that violated the directive would be sanctioned, adding that the warning became necessary to safeguard the integrity of admissions process.
The Minister however, mandated institutions to give admissions only through CAPS. According to him, similarly, any institution that issued admissions letters to candidates outside CAPS will be punished for the gross indiscipline and fraud.
In his presentation, JAMB Registrar Ishaq Oloyede, said one of the objectives of the meeting was to set guidelines for admissions into all tertiary institutions in the country. He noted that the guidelines would be adopted and must be adhered to by all Heads of institutions, as failure to do so, would attract consequences.

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Education For Justice: Osinbajo Lauds UN’s Initiative On Crime Prevention Among Youths - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 19, 2019
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has lauded the Education for Justice, E4J Initiative by United Nations Office on Drug and Crime, UNODC in creating awareness to prevent criminal activities among youths.
Osinbajo who was represented by his Special Adviser on Rule of Law, Farida Waziri made the commendation during the launch of the programme in Abuja.
The E4J initiative was a component of the Global Programme for the implementation of the 2015 Doha Declaration of fostering a culture of lawfulness among young people.
E4J initiative aimed at creating awareness and disseminating educational materials on issues of crime prevention, criminal justice and rule of law at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
According to Osinbajo, mainstreaming variety of topics regarding criminal justice and rule of law into age-appropriate educational materials will help prevent criminal thoughts in children at an early age.
He said the rule of law was the essential framework for development, security, economic growth, provision of social services, peaceful resolution of conflicts and access to justice  that ensure respect for human rights


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Education: Government Urged To Review Policy - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 14, 2021
The call was made in a function held in Zaria to address challenges associated with Almajiri system of education.

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Education, Health, Other Sectors Receive Boost As FCTA, UN Sign Sustainable Development Partnership Framework - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 18, 2022
This is as the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello and the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Mathias Schmale, signed the Joint Annual Review and Work Plan of the Federal Capital Territory/United Nations Sustainable Development Partnership Framework (FCT-UNSDPF) to improve service delivery in those sectors.
Speaking during the brief signing ceremony which took place in his office, Malam Bello commended the UN for the intervention and gave assurances of the FCTA’s support for UN activities in the Territory.
Malam Bello said, “Frankly I am satisfied with the support we receive as a city and as a Territory from the UN family, and I assure you that we will continue to partner with you on this intervention and all the things that you do for the FCT.
Also speaking, Mr Mathias Schmale said that  that the three Result Areas and 9 Outcomes of the UNSDPF are (1) Governance, Human Rights, Peace and Security, (2) Equitable Quality Basic Services, and (3) Sustainable and Inclusive Growth and Development. He equally revealed that the UN was about to sign a new cooperation framework with the Federal Government.

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Education: KASU Management Confirms Upward Review Of Tuition Fees - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Iliya Auta
April 24, 2021
The Management of the Kaduna State University (KASU) has confirmed the upward review of its tuition fees but said consultations are ongoing with stakeholders.
The University’s Public Relation Officer Adamu Bargo, who made the confirmation in a statement in Kaduna, explained that the upward review was due to the present reality and efforts to improve the standard of learning.
He added that the decision was also to enhance development in the university.
The Spokesman said available record showed that 400 million naira was being spent monthly and 4.8 billion naira annually by the Kaduna State Government on payment of the university’s staff salaries.
He also explained that 25 million naira was also being spent as overhead monthly, while the university generates only 765.9 million naira as internally generated revenue annually. “In the year 2020, there was the allocation of 10 billion naira to the university meant for the execution of capital projects, but 5 billion naira was spent on overhead and personnel cost.
Meanwhile, students have rejected the increase and described the management action as inhuman.
A medical student, Abdulrazak Shuaibu, who spoke on behalf of the students, said the tuition fees were increased from 26,000 naira to 150,000 naira for students in Faculty of Arts, Management and Social Sciences.
Shuaibu, who is former President of Kaduna State Students Union, noted that students in the Faculty of Medicine from the state would now pay 300,000 naira as against 24,000 naira while non-indigenes will pay 500,000 naira.

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Education: KD SG Unveils Campaign To Enrol 145,553 Out-Of-School Children - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 12, 2023
Board’s Desk Officer Area-1 Lead, BESDA, Esther Jibji, made this known at the opening of a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation on enrolment of out-of-school children in Kaduna.
She explained that BESDA, which began in the state in 2019 was specifically designed to address the menace of out-of-school children.
The officer also explained that the board has enrolled over 500,000 out-of-school children in school in the first phase of the programme, of which 312,785 children have been verified by the National Population Commission.
In her remarks, Education Secretary Kaduna North Local Government Education Authority, Farida Ibrahim, described the BESDA programme as crucial to addressing the problem of out-of-school children in the state.


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Education: KDSG Completes Construction Of 6 Science Secondary Schools – Official - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 10, 2022
Commissioner for Education Halima Lawal stated this at the opening of a 5-day training for teachers, monitoring and evaluation officers and school administrators.
Halima, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Haliru Soba said the schools are two, one for boys and the other for girls, in each of the three senatorial districts. According to the commissioner, the aim is to promote science education and increase the number of graduates with a view to developing the needed science-based manpower for development of the state.
She said the schools are located at Hunkuyi Kudan Local Government Area; Pambegua in Kubau; Rigachikun, Igabi, Buruku, Chikun, Jere, Kagarko and Manchok in Kaura Local Government Area.
The Project Manager Shehu Isah also explained that 321 teachers, school administrators and inspectors are participating in the training, adding that out of the 321 participants, 270 are teachers, made up of 90 science teachers and 180 are non-science teachers.


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Education: KDSG To Integrate Almajiri Islamic Schools – Commissioner - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
July 29, 2019
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Education ShehuMuhammad-Makarfi, says the state government will integrate Almajiri Schoolsinto formal education system.
He made this known in an interview while inspecting2018/2019 Common Entrance Examination in Zaria zone.
The Commissioner visited Barewa College, ScienceSecondary School, Kufena and Alhudahuda College, Zaria.
Muhammd-Makarfi said the government would discusswith Quranic teachers to assuage their fears and agree on a format for the fullintegration of the Almajiri schools.
He said that part of the government plan was for theAlmajiri school students to attend formal schools in the morning.
The Commissioner noted that selfishness andignorance were largely driving fears among stakeholders on the integration ofthe two education systems.
According to him, under the new system, thegovernment will not discriminate against any sect.

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Education: KDSG Unveils Campaign To Enrol 145,553 Out-Of-School Children. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 12, 2023
Board’s Desk Officer Area-1 Lead, BESDA, Esther Jibji, made this known at the opening of a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation on enrolment of out-of-school children in Kaduna.
She explained that BESDA, which began in the state in 2019 was specifically designed to address the menace of out-of-school children.
The officer also explained that the board has enrolled over 500,000 out-of-school children in school in the first phase of the programme, of which 312,785 children have been verified by the National Population Commission.
In her remarks, Education Secretary Kaduna North Local Government Education Authority, Farida Ibrahim, described the BESDA programme as crucial to addressing the problem of out-of-school children in the state.


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Education: Minister Lauds JAMB For Service Delivery, Integrity - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
May 19, 2019
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has commendedthe Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB for ensuring servicedelivery to the public.
The minister said this during the unveiling of theremodeled JAMB Headquarters Complex in Bwari, Abuja.
Adamu, represented by Executive Secretary, NationalUniversity Commission NUC Abubakar Rasheed, said that the board’s show ofintegrity was worth emulating.
According to him, this has continued to be theflagship of the education sector in terms of transparent and honest servicedelivery.
Adamu also said that the recent ‘painstaking effort’of the board at scrutinising the process of the Unified Tertiary MatriculationExamination, UTME and its relationship with intent, plans, and execution ofexamination malpractice was not a misplaced one.He however said the outcome of the exercise hasrevealed a lot of rot in the education system.


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Education: Minister Says Nigeria Do Not Need Grammar Schools Any More - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
November 22, 2019
The Minister of State for Mines andSteel Development, Uchechukwu Ogah has said that Nigeria does not need “grammarschools” again.
He explained that what the countryneeded for rapid growth and development was skill acquisition institutions. Hestated this during a visit to the Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha,Anambra State.
Ogah, who described the institute ascritical for national growth and development, said the Federal Government hadconcluded arrangements to regularise the legal framework for the effectiveoperation of the institute.
He maintained that the ministry ofmines and steel development would optimise its focus on the institution toenable it achieve the goal it had set, which is imparting skills.
The institute’s Acting Director, BiakoloAlisigwe thanked the Minister for visiting, describing the minister’s presenceas a morale booster and an open testimony of his zeal to take the institute toa greeter height.

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Education: NANS Decries Poor State Of Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
June 15, 2019
The leadership ofthe National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has decried what it calledthe poor state of education across the states of the federation.
The PublicRelations Officer of the association, Adeyemi Azeez made this known in astatement in Abuja on Saturday.
Azeez noted that itwas imperative to make the remark about the country’s educational sector aftera general overview from all the states of the federation.
He noted that thepresident of NANS, Danielson Akpan had also described as disheartening, asituation where education that was free and accessible in the days of today’sleaders, is now unaffordable to the sons and daughters of the poor.
He said that mostclassrooms, laboratories and libraries had become ill-equipped in the recenttime.
Azeez, however,commended Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun for declaring a state of emergency in theeducation sector of the state, during his inauguration speech on the May 29.The association,however, implored the governor to make his declaration a complete reality andnot just a mere pronouncement.


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Education: Netherlands Seeks Collaboration With Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
July 9, 2019
Adelegation from Nuffic in the Netherlands is seeking collaboration with theFederal Ministry of Education on various fields of education.
TeamLeader, Partnership and Programme Development, Netherlands, David Van Kampa, ina meeting with officials of the ministry, said the country was ready to deliveron staff training, curriculum development and others.
Nufficis a Dutch organisation for Netherlands education, which plays an importantrole in fostering international cooperation in education between the Netherlandsand other countries.
VanKampa said the collaboration was necessary for the two countries to shareknowledge, and as well foster relationships in the areas of curriculum development,scholarship awards among others.
Henoted that out of the number of foreigners that visited Netherlands, Nigeriawas 75 per cent, which compelled the need for cooperation.


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Education: Nigeria Signs Safe School Declaration - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
March 21, 2019
The Federal ExecutiveCouncil has ratified the Safe School Declaration.
Minister of Education,Adamu Adamu said this while briefing State House correspondents after thecouncil’s meeting presided over by President Buhari.
The Safe SchoolsDeclaration is an inter-governmental political commitment that was opened forendorsement by countries at an international conference held in Oslo, Norway,on May 28 to 29, 2015.
According to Adamu,there have been a number of activities on the initiative, but Nigeria is nowcommitted to implementing the Safe School guideline.
The Minister said thatthat council also awarded a contract for the construction of a Faculty of Artsin Adamawa State University for N630 million. He added that the project wouldbe funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND.
On his part, the Minister of Environment, Suleiman Hassan, said that FEC approved the award of contract for the remediation of five more lots for the ongoing clean-up in Ogoni land, as a result of the UNEP report that was submitted to the Federal Government.

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Education: Noun Matriculates 17 Inmates Of Kaduna Prison - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
March 1, 2019
Seventeen inmates of the Nigerian Prison in Kadunawere on Tuesday matriculated to study various courses at the National Open Universityof Nigeria NOUN campuses in the state.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, AbdallahAdamu, stated this during a brief matriculation ceremony held for the inmatesat the Kaduna Convict Prison, Independence Way, Kaduna.
Abdallah urged the new students to make good use ofthe opportunity given to them by the institution and become better citizensafter their jail terms.
Represented by Director, Research Centre, NOUN,Aminu Ibrahim, the Vice Chancellor said the NOUN had the largest student familynot only in Nigeria, but in Africa
According to him, the inmates are enrolled in various fields of study in the Faculties of Management Science, Education, Law, Art, Science and Agriculture.


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Education: Obasanjo, Sultan, Others Raise Alarm Over Failing Standard - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 9, 2021
Obasanjo, who described Secondary School Education as a bridge between primary and tertiary education, noted that the quality of secondary education was so critical that it decides whether or not a child advances to the peak of his/her educational pursuit or not.
The Former President, who represented by the Vice Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN Olufemi Peters said it is a make or mar stage that determines whether the beginner shall progress and attain the acceptable level of advancement and refinement to the league of the learned, which higher education confers. He added that the   publication promises to set the tone for policy review and an overhaul of the curriculum of the country’s educational system which have suffered an erosion of quality, especially at the secondary level.
Also the Sultan of Sokoto, who represented by the Emir of Wase Mohammed Sambo Haruna, decried the neglect of education by parents, saying there was need to give the children the due attention they deserve.

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Education: President Buhari Says Key To Nigeria Socio-Economic Growth - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
May 11, 2019
President MuhammaduBuhari has said that education was the only bedrock for socio-economic growthof Nigeria.
The President made theassertion during the 13Convocation Ceremony of the Nnamdi AzikiweUniversity Awka, Anambra state.
Represented byMinister of State for Education, Anthony Anwuka, Buhari said the FederalGovernment was committed to the development of education in country.
The President notedthat through education, the country would tackle youth unemployment.
He urged the graduatesto explore opportunities created in the area of N-Power, N-Teach, N-Agro andother programmes of the FG to improve themselves.
The Vice-Chancellor ofthe University, Joseph Ahaneku said the event was the last convocation he wouldorganise as the institution’s Vice-Chancellor. He said the convocation was forthe 2017/18 academic year, noting that six hundred and five were conferred withfirst degree and one hundred and eight two Postgraduate diploma.


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Education: President Buhari Tasks Varsity Administrators To Avoid Waste Of Resources - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 28, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked university administrators to be  frugal and avoid waste of resources.
Buhari made the call at the second convocation of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta state.
The President, whose address was read by the Minister of State Education, Anthony Onwuka said government would no longer condone corruption in whatsoever guise.
Buhari challenged Institution to be a catalyst for greater innovation and pacesetter for technological revolution in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry.
Buhari also commended the people of the Niger Delta for sustaining peace in the region, noting that the development had encouraged the smooth operation of oil and gas industries in the region.


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Education Sector: Nigeria Issues Operating Licenses To 37 Universities. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 17, 2023
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this said the approval was given during an extraordinary session of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
He noted that the new approval brings to 72 the total number of universities licensed by the Buhari administration since 2015.
The Minister, however, did not name the universities, revealing that one of them is an online university, the first of its kind in Nigeria owned by a woman from Bauchi State.
According to him, it is expected that it will cater for the likes of northern Muslim women who feel reluctant or are restrained from attending physical campus education.


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Education: Senate Passes Bill To Convert Kadpoly To City University - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 22, 2019
The Senate has passed for thirdreading a bill seeking the conversation of Kaduna Polytechnic to CityUniversity of Technology, Kaduna state.
The passing of the new bill by theSenate came after consideration and adoption of the report of the committee onTertiary Education and TetFund.
The committee chaired by JibrinBarau was sponsored by Shehu Sani. Following the adoption of the committeereport, the senators agreed to pass it for third reading immediately atTuesday, May 21st, plenary.
The Senate is expected forward thebill to the House of Representatives for concurrence.
The bill will also be expected to betransmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent before the expiration ofthe current 8th National Assembly on June 9th.


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Education: TRCN Advises NYSC To Stop Posting Non-Education Graduates To Teach - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 13, 2019
The Registrar, Teachers RegistrationCouncil of Nigeria, TRCN Segun Ajiboye says the council has written to the Director-General, National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, advising him to stop postinggraduates without Education degrees to teach in schools.
Ajiboye was quoted as tellingnewsmen in Ibadan, Oyo State that the measure is one of the steps towardtransforming education in the country.
He explained that most of thoseposted to teach in the mandatory one year scheme do not have qualification toteach, saying education system gets ruined when unqualified persons withoutrequisite professional skills are deployed to teach.Ajiboye however acknowledged that there was adearth of qualified teachers in some states of the federation, noting thatmajority of those teaching in private nursery and primary schools nationwidewere not qualified to be in the class


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Education: UBEC Partners UNICEF To Address Challenges - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 25, 2020
TheUniversal Basic Education Commission, UBEC and United Nations Children Fund,UNICEF are partnering on proactive measures to address the challenges of basiceducation in the country.
TheHead of Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the commission Ossom Ossom, madethis known in a statement in Abuja.
Thestatement quoted the Executive Secretary of UBEC, Hamid Bobboyi, who spoke at afive-day training exercise held in Calabar, Cross Rivers state, as saying thatequitable quality in the provision of basic education was of paramount importance.
Bobboyi,who was represented by UBEC Director of Administration and Supplies, EdwinJarumai, added that ensuring effective utilisation of available learningopportunities at the basic level necessitated collaborations with UNICEF.He said that UNICEF was providing an opportunityfor Social Mobilization Officers and School Based Management Committee, SBMC;Desk Officers from UBEC and State Universal Basic Education Boards, SUBEB, tosharpen their skills towards effective service delivery

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Education: UBEC Trains Officers On New ICT-Based Procedures, Strategies - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 5, 2019
TheUniversal Basic Education Commission, UBEC has developed new quality assurancestrategies and procedures to improve the quality of learning outcomes in basicschools across the country.
Thecommission’s Executive Secretary Hamid Bobboyi announced  this in Kaduna at the opening of five-daytraining for Core Masters Trainers on the use of the new strategy, proceduresand software.
Bobboyi,who was represented by the Director, Quality Assurance, Mansir Idris said thatthe new strategies and procedures was information and communicationtechnology-based in line with global best practices. He added that fiftyofficers are participating in the training from the UBEC headquarters, zonaland state offices.
Onhis part, Executive Chairman, Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board,Abdullahi Sani commended UBEC for supporting the states to ensure qualitylearning outcomes in basic schools through effective quality assuranceactivities.

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Education: UK-Based NGO To Partner With FG On Out-Of-School Children - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 30, 2020
A United Kingdom, UK-based Non-Governmental organisation, NGOI. A Foundation, has said it is partnering with the Federal Government to
rehabilitate the high number of street childrenin the country back to
school.
The NGO Founder, Ibironke Adeagbo toldjournalists in Lagos that the
Foundation would give out bursary allowance tochildren from poor
background, to be able to go to school and getbetter education.
According to her, the Foundation is also focusing on theeducation of
the girl-child, especially in the North-East.
Adeagbo said they are looking for children from the primaryand
secondary schools up to the university level,starting with Lagos, Ogun and NasarawaStates.
He added that the available funds would determine the numberof school
children that would benefit from the bursary.

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Education: UNICEF, Others Want Functional System For Nigerian Youths - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 10, 2019
TheUnited Nations Children Education Fund, UNICEF and other stakeholders havecalled for a functional educational system to help Nigerian youths achievetheir dreams.
Theyalso drew the attention of the Federal Government to the need to create theright vision and environment that would unite us as a nation.
Theymade this call in Abuja at the maiden edition of the Naija Youth Talk,organised by UNICEF with the theme: “The Nigeria we Want”.
TheUNICEF Country Representative, Peter Hawkins said there was need to address thechallenges of education in the country, with more than sixty-four millionpopulation of youths within the age bracket of 15-35.
Hawkins,represented by Chief of Basic Education, UNICEF, Mrs Euphrates Efosie, said theyouth population was a key ingredient of national development, a bridge and transitionto a prosperous future, if properly harnessed.
Meanwhile,Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesinachallenged Nigerian youths to always love the country despite all odds andexperience, saying that in loving the country lies our unity.

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Education: UNICEF Supports Enrolment Of 242, 214 Girls In Katsina State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 18, 2019
The Director, Planning, Research andStatistics, State Ministry of Education, Kabir Lawal, today said this duringthe 2019 Mid-Year UNICEF Review Meeting for Kano and Katsina States that heldin Kano.
He said the figure represented 39.8per cent of the targeted girls’ enrolment as contained in the state AnnualSchools Census for 2018/2019 and Enrolment Drive Validation.
Lawal also said that 456,017 pupilswere enrolled into primary one ‘at right age’, representing 44.0 per cent, asagainst the set target of 62.8 per cent.
He said the programme targeted toprovide 69,855 individual children with early learning materials through theUNICEF support programmes.


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Education: We’re Committed To Increase Budget By 50% In The Next Two Years – Buhari - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 29, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to increase the budget for the
education sector by as much as 50 percent over the next two years.
In a document titled, Heads Of State Call To Action On Education
Financing Ahead Of The Global Education Summit, signed as a form of
commitment at the on-going Summit in London, United Kingdom, the
President stated:
The Summit which is being co-hosted by the Prime Minister of UK
Boris Johnson and the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta seeks to give
opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE’s work to
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Educational Project: Prince Harry Starts Trip To Malawi In Next Leg Of Africa Tour - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 30, 2019
Britain’s Prince Harry is expected toarrive in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, where he will visit an educationalproject before meeting with President Peter Mutharika.
According to his schedule, he willvisit the Nalikule College of Education, where a group of young women is beingfinancially supported while completing twele-years of schooling.
Harry, who’s on the seventh day ofhis visit to Southern Africa, will then meet with President Mutharika, who inMay was sworn in for a second term after a hotly contested election marred byallegations of vote rigging.
Anti-government demonstrations havebeen ongoing since June in the south-east African country, sparking clasheswith police. It is not known whether these issues will be discussed by theprince, who has met Mutharika on previous occasions.
The three-country partnership is aQueen’s Commonwealth Canopy initiative that Harry designed in consultation withthe governments of Botswana, Namibia and Angola in a bid to protect wildlife.

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EFCC Arraigns Wanted Ex-NSITF Chair For N1.3bn Bribery, Defendant Remanded - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 22, 2021
Justice Maryam Aliyu gave the order after Olejeme was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on nine charges in which she was accused of abusing her office, receiving bribe, awarding contracts without due process amounting to about 3 billion naira.
Olejeme was alleged to have received the sum of 22.2 billion naira from a contractor with Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, into her personal account.
When the charges were read to her, she pleaded not guilty, following which the prosecuting lawyer, Steve Odiase sought a date for the commencement of trial.
The defence lawyer, Paul Erokoro, informed the court about his client’s bail application, which he proceeded to move.

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EFCC Arrests 60 Suspected ‘Yahoo Boys’ In Ogun - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 30, 2021
Spokesperson for EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement issued in Abuja.
Uwujaren, who said that the suspects were arrested at an event, tagged: “Peer Youths Awards”, added that investigation later revealed that the event was organised to reward high-level internet fraudsters.
He listed the items recovered from the suspects at the point of arrest to include: exotic cars, electronic devices, laptop computers and mobile phones.
According to the EFCC spokesman, the suspects will soon be charged to court.

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EFCC Arrests Two Chinese For Bribery - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 13, 2020
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Sokoto Zonal Office, has arrested two Chinese men, Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuoi, for allegedly offering its Zonal Head, Abdullahi Lawal, 50 million naira bribe.
In a statement in Abuja by its spokesman, Dele Oyewale, EFCC said that the suspects were arrested on Monday, May 11, in Sokoto.
Read This: EFCC Says Shehu Sani Has Case To Answer
According to Oyewale, the alleged bribe was offered in a desperate bid to compromise ongoing investigation of a construction company, China Zhonghao Nigeria Limited, handling Zamfara State Government contracts worth 50 billion naira between 2012 and 2019.
He further said that the zonal office was investigating the construction company in connection with contracts for the construction of township roads in Gummi, Bukkuyun, Anka and Nasarawa towns of Zamfara, as well as the construction of 168 solar-powered boreholes in the 14 councils of the state.


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EFCC Chair: Saraki Says The Senate Expects Presidency To Lobby Or Send Fresh Nominee To Replace Magu - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 1, 2019
ThePresident of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has said that the Economic andFinancial  Crimes  Commission has no substantive chairmanbecause the presidency refused to replace Ibrahim Magu, when his nomination wasrejected by the Senate.
Sarakistated this at the ongoing orientation programme organised by the NationalAssembly management for newly elected federal lawmakers.
Hesaid the presidency ought to have followed the standard global practice ofeither presenting another nominee or employ the political solution of lobbyingthe leadership of the Senate.
Sarakitold the lawmakers-elect that the Senate has the right to either confirm orreject presidential nominees in the interest of the nation.
TheSenate rejected Magu on the three occasions that the presidency presented hisnomination, citing an unfavourable memo against him by the Department of StateServices.Saraki noted that thenegative public perception of the National Assembly members adversely affectedthe eighth Senate.


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EFCC Corruption Watchlist: Court Orders Immigration To Release Peter Odili’s Passport - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 18, 2021
Delivering the Judgement on Monday, the ruling judge declared the
seizure by the service as illegal, unconstitutional and an infringement of
his fundamental rights.
He further ordered the service, to tender an apology to the former
governor, and restrained the NIS from harassing and intimidating him
from leaving the country or moving freely within the country.
Justice Ekwo added that the seizure of the former governor’s passport,
was a punitive act and no citizen should be treated in such a manner,
irrespective of status.
The former governor had filed a suit against the immigration service
challenging the seizure of his passport at the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport, Abuja on 20 June 2021, upon his arrival into the
country.
The service, however, told the court that it acted based on Odili’s
presence on an EFCC corruption watchlist.

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EFCC Cracks Fraud Syndicate, Arrests 4 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 25, 2019
The Economicand Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested a syndicate that specialisedin accessing personal data of Nigerians based overseas to defraud their friendsand relations back home.
This iscontained in a statement signed by the commission’s Spokesperson, WilsonUwujaren in Ibadan. He said the EFCC had launched a manhunt on the suspectsafter receiving a petition from one Godwin Ekhaguere.
He said thatEkhaguere, a professor of Mathematics who retired from the University ofIbadan, had in the petition alleged that the gang defrauded him of sums of overfive hundred and sixty five thousand, five hundred naira.
Uwujarensaid that the professor alleged that the suspected fraudsters also made him topart with recharge vouchers worth thirty six thousand naira in the scam.
Thestatement added that four members of the gang have been arrested and in EFCCcustody while others are at large.

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EFCC Declares Ex-Nia Boss Oke, Wife, Wanted - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 25, 2019
The Economic andFinancial Crimes Commission EFCC has declared a former Director General of theNational Intelligence Agency, NIA Ayodele Oke and his wife, Folasade, wanted after they failed to answerfor fraud charges filed against them.
A statement from EFCCacting spokesperson, Tony Orilade said Justice Chukwujeku Aneke of a FederalHigh Court Lagos, had on February 7th, issued an arrest warrant on them, consequent upon an oral application bycounsel for the commission, Rotimi Oyedepo.
Orilade said Oke and his wife were wanted inconnection with the over  43, milliondollars and  over 23, million Naira  cash recovered by the EFCC from an apartmentat Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017.
They are facing afour-count charge bordering on money laundering offence to the tune of N13billion, filed on Friday, February 1, 2019.


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EFCC Denies Raid On Ex-Gov. Ambode’s House - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 20, 2019
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has denied reports that its operatives raided the home of a former Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
Read This: Highway Extortion: Joint Inter-Agency Arrests 37 Road Safety Officials
Astatement today from acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade said since the earlyhours, the agency has been inundated with calls that its operatives raided theresidence of the former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode.
Oriladesaid whatever the Commission is presently doing with regards to the investigation,is in line with its mandate and the rule of law.
Hesaid the attempt to cast the Commission in a bad light is unacceptable as theEFCC will never engage in illegal act.


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EFCC Drags Ex-INEC Boss Maurice Iwu To Court - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 7, 2019
The Economic andFinancial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), is set to arraign a former Chairman of theIndependent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Maurice Iwu for allegedmoney laundering.
It was gathered thatIwu will be arraigned at a federal High Court, sitting in Lagos on a four-countcharge bordering on money laundering.
A top official in thecommission  disclosed that, Iwu isalleged to have between December 2014 and March 2015, aided the concealment ofthe sum One Billion, Two Hundred and Three Million Naira.
According to thesource, the said sum was in the bank account of Bioresources Institute ofNigeria Limited domiciled in the United Bank for Africa, (UBA) Plc.
When contacted, EFCCacting spokesperson, Tony Orilade, confirmed the planned arraignment.

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EFCC Hails CBN’s Move To Clampdown On Currency Hoarders - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 27, 2022
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced that the apex bank had obtained the approval of the Federal Executive Council to redesign and issue new 200, 500 and 1000 naira notes.
According to Emefiele, the new notes will come into circulation by December 15, 2022 while the old notes will no longer be accepted after January 31, 2023.
The EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa hailed the move as “a well-considered and timely response” to the challenges of currency management in the country.
Bawa said in a statement issued by EFCC’s spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren, in Abuja, that the challenges of currency management has negatively impacted the country’s monetary policy and security imperatives.
Bawa called on operators in the Nigerian financial services sector, especially deposit money banks and bureau de change operators, to work within the guidelines provided by the CBN to ensure seamless withdrawal of the old currency.

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EFCC Laments Difficulty In Recovering Looted Assets - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 12, 2019
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial CrimesCommission, EFCC Ibrahim Magu says illicit Financial Flows from Nigeria tofinancial privacy jurisdictions abroad are difficult to recover.
According to the Global Financial Integrity report, the illegalcash flows from Nigeria that ends up in such Safe Havens amounts to aboutseventeen billion dollars annually.
Magu who spoke at a round-table in Abuja to commemorate theAfrican Union Second Anti-Corruption Day, themed: Towards a Common African Positionon Asset Recovery decried that proceeds of corruption from Africa end up insafe havens across the globe.
He said unity among nations in the African continent iscritical in demanding the recovery and return of stolen assets.
The EFCC Boss stated that Africa has come to the realizationthat one person, continent, agency or country alone cannot fight corruption andwin.o:p>


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EFCC Needs Digital Training To Distinguish Cyber Criminality From Genuine Businesses — Danbatta - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 16, 2021
Executive Vice-Chairman of the commission Umar Danbatta gave the advice at the launch of digital training programmes for Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs owners in Abuja. The training programme under the auspices of Digital Academy of The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN was in collaboration with NCC and Sapphital Learning.
Danbatta also acknowledged that there were internet criminals and cyber fraudsters but that it was necessary the EFCC distinguished legitimate online and internet businesses.
He noted that such training would help in order not to infringe into Nigeria’s digital economy.
Earlier, the Director General of SMEDAN, Dikko Rada, said there were over 41.1 million SMEs in the country contributing about 7.64 per cent to Nigeria exports every year.

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EFCC Re-Arraigns Fani-Kayode On Amended 17-Count Charge - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 25, 2022
Fani-Kayode is standing trial alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman; a former Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria ALGON, Yusuf Danjuma, and a firm, Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited.
The defendants were formerly on trial for the alleged charges before the former trial judge, Justice Mohammed Aikawa.
They pleaded not guilty and were granted bail, following which trial began.
But proceedings were stalled when the Justice Aikawa was transferred out of the Lagos Division.
The case was consequently assigned to a new judge, Justice Daniel Osaigor, and proceedings started de novo.

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EFCC Recovers N3.6bn, 10 Houses From Suspected Looters In Ilorin - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 9, 2019
TheIlorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC saysit has recovered 3.6 billion naira and 10 houses from suspected looters.
EFCCZonal head, Isyaka Sharu, who spoke today in Ilorin during the annualInternational Anti-corruption Day rally, said that at the eve of the lasthanding over, EFCC saved the state of an attempt to loot over 4 billion nairaof its tax refund.
TheState Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazak said that the match against corruptionwas for everybody, noting that “if we do not kill corruption, it will kill allof us’’.
AbdulRazaksaid that corruption was detrimental to the economy and social developmentbecause it reduces the capacity to work.
Thegovernor commended the anti-graft body for its efforts and support in therecovery of money.
AbdulRazaksaid the 4.8 billion naira was still intact in the government cash reserve, andit would be used to work for the state economy and balance the budget for nextyear.

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EFCC Returns Recovered Vehicles To University Authority - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 7, 2019
TheEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kaduna zonal office has handedover four vehicles recovered from some management staff of the FederalUniversity, Dutsin-ma, Katsina State, to the school authority.
Spokespersonof the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement in Abuja said that thevehicles were recovered following a petition by the Minister of Education,Adamu Adamu.
Uwujarensaid that the Minister alleged that former principal officers of theinstitution paid themselves several millions of Naira as severance allowancesas well as engaged in suspicious financial transactions with a first generationbank.
Hegave names of the accused principal officers as Vice Chancellor James Ayatse,Registrar Muhammad Abubakar, and the Bursar Sadiq Jimoh.
Otheroffences against the suspects according to Uwujaren included procurement ofpersonal items at inflated prices and violation of due process in the award ofcontracts, among others.

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EFCC Says Court Has Ordered Okorocha, Family Assets’ Forfeiture - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 5, 2019
TheEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has said that a former Governorof Imo State, Rochas Okorocha and some members of his family would forfeitassets to the state government.
TheEFCC Head Enugu zonal office, Usman Imam announced this while fieldingquestions from journalists at a news conference in Enugu on the commission’scollaboration with the United States of America’s Federal Bureau ofInvestigation, FBI.
Imamexplained that the commission had obtained orders for the interim forfeiture ofassets traced to the former Governor, his wife, Nneoma Nkechi, and theirdaughter. He added that the anti-graft agency had obtained similar order on aproperty traced to Okorocha’s former aide, Paschal Obi.
Hesaid the commission had established prima facie cases against the suspects,which they would answer to.

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EFCC Says Shehu Sani Has Case To Answer - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 11, 2020
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC says Sen.Shehu Sani, who is being detained by the commission for alleged extortion, hasa case to answer.
EFCC Acting Spokesman, Tony Orilade made this known in astatement, which debunked insinuations that the anti-craft agency waspersecuting the former lawmaker. It added that Sani had case to answer and thatthose defending him were driven by ignorance of the alleged offence.
The EFCC’s statement came after a civil societyorganisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAPreportedly demanded immediate release of Sani from the commission’s custody.
Reports quoted the Executive Director of SERAP, AdetokunboMumuni, of accusing the EFCC of violating both national and international lawswith the former-lawmaker’s detention.
The former lawmaker had also reportedly alleged that theFederal Government was trying to silence him using the EFCC.
In same vein, the commission has called on the public todisregard an online publication which speculated that the commission hadarraigned former vice-president Atiku Abubakar over alleged fraud ofseventy-five-point-three billion naira.

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EFCC Secures Forfeiture Of N755m, Luxury Assets From Ex-AGF, Former Aide To NSA - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 22, 2022
The final forfeiture order was granted by Justice D. U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
A statement by EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, dscribed the money and properties as products of illicit activities of Otunla and Fadile.
The commission had, on July 20, 2020, secured an interim forfeiture order on the assets and also published the order of the court on August 11, for the respondent to show cause why the money and properties should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.

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EFCC Seeks Court Order For Separate Trial Of Dauski, Co- Defendants - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 14, 2019
TheEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has sought an Abuja High Courtorder for separate trial for former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki fromseven other defendants.
Dasukiis being tried in two separate cases alongside other defendants before JusticeHussein Baba-Yusuf by EFCC since 2015 on alleged misappropriation of fund madearms.
Atthe resumed sitting of the case, EFCC Counsel Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, expressedhindrance over the continuous absence of Dasuki, who is the first defendant inthe case.
Hetold the Court that the trial had filed a motion dated November 4,seeking the continuation of trial in Dasuki’s absence, adding that theprosecution was served with a counter affidavit this morning.
Respondingto this, counsel for Baba-Kusa, Solomon Umoh, SAN, submitted that what theJacobs was suggesting did not have any place in the book. He said Dasuki iscentral to the charge against other defendants.

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EFCC Seeks Media Partnership In Fight Against Money Laundering. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 15, 2023
EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement issued in Abuja, quoted the agency’s Executive Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa as making the call at a workshop on: “Effective Reporting of Economic and Financial Crimes’’ for journalists in northwest Nigeria in Sokoto State.
Sokoto Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Aliyu Yunusa, represented Bawa at the workshop.
He stressed that the media should ask questions on budget performance through deliberate monitoring and reporting; whistle blowing on project failures; abandonment of contracts; project delays and poor project delivery.
Uwujaren also reminded the workshop participants about their sacred obligation as media practitioners to expose wrong deeds in society.


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EFCC Seeks Media Partnership In Fight Against Money Laundering - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 15, 2023
EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement issued in Abuja, quoted the agency’s Executive Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa as making the call at a workshop on: “Effective Reporting of Economic and Financial Crimes’’ for journalists in northwest Nigeria in Sokoto State.
Sokoto Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Aliyu Yunusa, represented Bawa at the workshop.
He stressed that the media should ask questions on budget performance through deliberate monitoring and reporting; whistle blowing on project failures; abandonment of contracts; project delays and poor project delivery.
Uwujaren also reminded the workshop participants about their sacred obligation as media practitioners to expose wrong deeds in society.


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EFCC Seeks To Set Aside Committal Order Against Chairman - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 9, 2022
The EFCC in a statement described Bawa, as a champion of rule of law and due process, who also believes in close partnership between the two institutions in justice administration.
Bawa was convicted by Justice Chizoba Oji on Tuesday over the failure of the anti-graft agency to comply with an earlier order of the court.
The Court had ordered the commission to return to a defendant, a former Director of Operations of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Air Vice Marshal Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo, his Range Rover Jeep and 40 million naira seized from him.
The anti-graft agency had in 2016 arraigned Ojuawo before Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of An Abuja High Court, on a two-count charge. The statement also explained that its chairman was not appointed when the order was given on November 21, 2018,

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EFCC To Arraign Emefiele May 15 On Three-Count Amended Charge. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 2, 2024
In the fresh charge filed against him, the EFCC alleged that Emefiele disobeyed the direction of law with intent to cause injury to the public during his implementation of the naira swap policy of the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The anti-graft agency also accused Emefiele of unlawfully approving the withdrawal of N124.8 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation.
The arraignment was earlier slated before Justice Maryan Anenih.However, all the parties were not present in court when the matter, was called.
The court said that the prosecution sent a letter seeking for adjournment because Emefiele was standing trial in another court in Lagos.
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EFCC To Arraign Emefiele On Today. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 15, 2024
The arraignment was originally scheduled for April 30, 2024, but was rescheduled following the agreement of the court and the parties.
In the four-count charge filed against him, the EFCC alleged that Emefiele disobeyed the direction of law with intent to cause injury to the public during his implementation of the naira swap policy of the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The anti-graft agency also accused Emefiele of unlawfully approving the withdrawal of N124.8 billion naira from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation.
It was gathered that the former CBN governor will be arraigned on these counts before Justice Maryann Anenih of the FCT High Court, Abuja.


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EFCC Urges Nigerians To Collaborate With Anti-Corruption Agencies - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 25, 2022
EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, gave the charge during a regional conference organised by the Social Action Group, an NGO, in Port Harcourt.
Bawa, who was represented by Oyewole Dele,  the Head, Public Affairs Unit, EFCC Port Harcourt Zonal Office, described the theme of the conference “Beyond Forensic Audit, Repositioning the NDDC for Inclusive and Effective Service Delivery” as apt.
He also urged Nigerians to pay attention to things happening in their immediate environment to enable them to identify their problems and find solutions to them.
Bawa also urged Civil Society Organisations CSOs to identify with the grassroots in order to get reliable information from them.
Also speaking at the event, Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission ICPC, said that the body was ready to partner with NDDC and CSOs to achieve its mandate

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Effective Implementation Of PIA Pivotal To Value Addition To Nigeria’S Economy – Official - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 31, 2021
According to him, the PIA seeks to incentivise optimality cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness in oil production.
He expressed confidence that Nigeria was on course in its alignment with the global quest to transit to cleaner energy for the sustainable future, using its abundant gas resources as a bridge fuel between the fossils of today and the renewable energy of tomorrow.


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Effective Service: Air Force Urges Personnel To Engage In Physical Exercise - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 29, 2019
The Nigerian Air Force has charged its personnel tocontinually engage in fitness exercise to make them effective in the discharge oftheir constitutional duties.
The Chief of Air Staff , Air Marshal SadiqueAbubakar, gave the charge on Saturday in Abuja at the end of the NAF 2019 SecondQuarter Route March Exercise.
Abubakar, who was represented by the Chief of Policyand Plans, AVM Emmanuel Anebi, praised the personnel for demonstrating highlevel of physical fitness.
He noted that officers and men of the NAF haveproved beyond reasonable doubt that they were willing, able and ready to servethe nation and defend its territorial integrity.
The air chief urged the personnel to sustain themilitary culture of regular exercise to maintain personal physical fitness tocarry out assigned tasks efficiently.The aim of the exercise is to keep officers andmen of the Service physically and mentally fit for effective performance oftheir various duties.


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EFL Cup Round Up: Iwobi opens goal account for Everton - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 29, 2019
Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho were absent for Leicester City as Alex Iwobi opened his goals account for Everton for the season in the EFL Cup second round on Wednesday.
Leicester defeated fellow Premier League side, Newcastle United 2-4 on penalties after the game ended 1-1.
However, the Foxes were without their Nigerian duo of midfielder, Ndidi, and compatriot, Iheanacho. Neither players were even listed for the game by Brendan Rodgers for the trip to St. James’ Park.
At the Sincil Bank Stadium in Lincoln, Super Eagles playmaker, Alex Iwobi, got off the mark for the season for Everton after they survived a scare from league one outfit Lincoln City.
The Toffees came from behind to beat Lincoln 2-4 with Iwobi netting the third goal, his first for the club since his move from Arsenal.
With the game tied at 2-2 and ten minutes left to play, Iwobi scored what appeared to be the winner for Everton on the 81st minute when he headed home from a cross from Cenk Tosun.
Earlier on Tuesday, Oghenekaro Etebo scored one of the penalties as Stoke City defeated Leeds United 4-5 via penalty shootout to book their place in the third round.
Etebo was a second half substitute in the game which ended 2-2 in regulation time.
Two other Nigerians who had a successful night in the EFL Cup were the duo of Isaac Success and Tom Dele-Bashir.
The two were in action as Watford thrashed Coventry City 3-0 at Vicarage Road.
While Success was on from start to finish while registering two assists to his name, Dele-Bashiru, who joined the club on a free transfer from Manchester City this summer, came on as a second-half substitute to make his debut for the Hornets on 71 minutes.

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Egg Powder: Association Advises FG To Establish Factory In Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 23, 2019
The Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN has advisedthe Federal Government to set up a factory that would produce egg powder in thecountry.
The Association’s Chairman in Plateau John Dasar who gave the advice in Jossaid since egg was being produced in large quantity in Nigeria, having suchfactory in the country would improve its economy.
The chairman, who explained that Nigeria was currentlyimporting egg powder from South Africa, insisted that the country had thecapacity to produce it in commercial quantity.
Dasar also called on government to support the poultry industry in the country to create more jobs and grow its Gross Domestic Product, GDP.


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Egg Production: Association Urges FG To Assist Members To Access Funding In Liberal Term - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 14, 2019
TheEggs Sellers and Distributors Association of Nigeria has appealed to theFederal Government to assist its members to access fund without severeconditions to boost eggs production.
Theassociation’s National President Olaide Graham, made the plea at the 1stanniversary of association, which coincided with the World Egg Day celebrationin Lagos with the theme: “Protein for Life”.
Theassociation is an assemblage of traders, whose major interest is to meet thecritical nutritional needs of every Nigerian. This is by ensuring availabilityand affordable healthy eggs which is the basic source of protein according toConsumer Protection Council of Nigeria.
Accordingto Graham, government should help us with soft loans without stringentconditions.
Shesaid that members of the association also need assistance in the area of costof transportation of eggs from poultry farms to our end users.

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Egypt, 14 Other African Countries Ready For 2019 ITTF Africa Cup - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 29, 2019
Fifteen African countries areexpected to converge in Lagos for the 2019 International Table TennisFederation, ITTF Africa Cup, which will kick-off on August 3 atTeslim Balogun Stadium.
Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri and Egypt’sDina Meshref are defending champions of the tournament and they are expected tobattle against other players for their places in the 2019 ITTF World Cups.
Aside host Nigeria, countriesexpected for the three-day championship includes Algeria, Benin Republic,Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, DR-Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea,Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Togo and Tunisia.
Also, since establishing himself asAlgeria’s best male player, Sami Kherouf has been making desperate efforts tohalt the supremacy of Aruna Quadri and Egypt’s Omar Assar in Africa. But allhis efforts have not materialised.


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Egypt 2020: Coach Abdullah Optimistic Chan Eagles Will Qualify - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 19, 2019
Coach Usman Abdullah of Enyimbafootball club of Aba, has expressed optimism that the CHAN-Eagles wouldovercome their opponent in today’s African Nations Championships, CHANqualifier against The Sparrow Hawks of Togo in Lagos.
Abdullah said it was going to be atough game overturning the 1-4 loss, but said the team needs to focus and showdetermination to qualify.
The Eagles in their first leg lost1-4 in Togo and need three goals to be able to book a place for the CHANscheduled for Egypt next year.
However, Coach Imama Amapakabo hassaid that the team cannot afford to lose out of the championship, which isanother ground to expose the home-based players to International competition

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Egypt. 2023: Flying Eagles Qualify For Under-20 Africa Cup Of Nations - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 19, 2022
The ticket to Saturday’s final also came with a ticket to next year’s Africa Under-20 Cup of Nations taking place in Egypt. Daniel Daga put Nigeria in front after only 5-minutes.
The seven-time African champions then launched attack on the Ivorian goal but failed to add to the tally, before the Ivorians equalized just before half -time from an intelligently-taken free kick at the edge of Nigeria’s eighteen-yard box.
Also Ibrahim Yahaya got the winner for Nigeria when he tucked in from the penalty spot to make it 2-1.
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Egypt: First Coptic Christian To Head Country’s Highest Court Sworn In - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 10, 2022
Judge Boulos Fahmy, 65, took the oath to head the Supreme
Constitutional Court in a ceremony attended by the president.
Coptic Christians, the largest non-Muslim religious minority in the
Middle East, make up roughly 10 to 15 percent of Egypt’s
predominantly Sunni Muslim population of more than 100 million.
The Coptic community has long complained of discrimination,
underrepresentation, and sidelining from senior posts in the judiciary,
universities, the police, and the military.

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Egypt: Head Coach Galal Sacked After Two Defeats In Three Games - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 17, 2022
Galal, 54, replaced Carlos Queiroz in Aprilafter the Pharaohs failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
But he was dismissed after a shock 2-0 defeat to Ethiopiain a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier and 4-1 friendly loss against South Korea.
EFA board member Hazem Emam said they will look to appoint a foreign coach.
Galal was appointed by Egypt after a season at Cairo-based Pyramids and previously managed several other club sides including Zamalek, El Masry, and Al Ahly Tripoli.
In his first match in charge in June, Egypt claimed a late 1-0 win over Guinea in a Nations Cup qualifier.
But the two losses, both missed by their captain and Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah, through injury, proved costly for Galal.


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Egypt Land In Asaba For Big Clash With Super Eagles - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 25, 2019
The delegation ofseven-time African champions Egypt has arrived in Nigeria for tomorrow’sprestige friendly with Nigeria’s Super Eagles.
On Sunday morning, achartered aircraft flew from Nigeria to Niamey, capital of Niger Republic toairlift the delegation to Asaba, capital of Delta State, where they confrontthree -time African champions Nigeria on Tuesday evening.
The Pharaohs, already qualified for the AfricaCup of Nations that they host this summer, drew 1-1 with hosts Niger Republicon Saturday in one of the final-day AFCON qualifying matches.
The delegation of 24players, 21 technical and backroom staff and five journalists landed at theAsaba Airport in the early afternoon, and is accommodated at Golden TulipHotel.


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Egypt: Military Says 46 Militants, 3 Soldiers Killed In Sinai - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 11, 2019
Egypt’smilitary on Monday said that 46 militants and three soldiers
werekilled in shoot-outs in the Sinai where the country is battling
militants.
Thestatement added that 100 suspected criminals were arrested in the
operations,without giving a time-frame.
Itadded that 204 explosive devices and a number of hideouts containing
weapons,ammunitions and highly explosive materials were detected and
destroyed.
Theforces have destroyed 10 tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip
andseized a number of RPGs and mortar shells, it said.
In2018, Egypt started a major security operation in Northern Sinai – a
hotbedof militants – and elsewhere in the country.
Egypthas seen a spate of attacks mainly against security forces since the
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Egypt: President Al-Sisi Raises Minimum Wage From $70 To $116 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 1, 2019
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has raised the country’s minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds equivalent to 116 dollars a month from 1,200 pounds.
Sisi said at an event celebrating women that the raise would apply to all Egyptian workers and added that pensions would rise by 15 percent, with pensioners receiving a minimum increase of 150 pounds to take the minimum pension to 900 pounds.
Under the measures announced by Sisi, state employees will receive a raise of 7 percent, or a minimum of 75 pounds, while those not employed in the civil service will receive a 10 percent raise, also receiving at least 75 pounds.
All state employees will also get a bonus of 150 pounds to help compensate for inflation, Sisi said, urging Egyptians to alter their spending behavior to help combat rising prices.
Egypt has implemented a series of tough economic measures, including devaluing the pound, slashing energy subsidies and introducing a value-added tax, to help meet conditions of a 12 billion dollars International Monetary Fund, IMF loan.


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Egypt: Protesters Against President Fattah Al-Sisi Teargassed By Police - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 21, 2019
A protest broke outin Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President AbdelFattah al-Sisi, but police quickly dispersed them.
Dozens of peoplejoined demonstrations around Tahrir Square; the epicentre of the 2011revolution that toppled the country’s long-time autocratic leader.
Such demonstrationsare rare after Egypt effectively banned protests under a law passed followingthe 2013 military ouster of Islamist ex-President Mohamed Morsi.
Amid a heavysecurity presence, including riot police and plainclothes police officers,protesters were rounded up.
Some journalistssaw about five protesters being arrested and police firing tear gas atdemonstrators around the square.
Under the rule ofgeneral-turned-President Sisi, who led Morsi’s ouster, authorities havelaunched a broad crackdown on dissidents, jailing thousands of Islamists aswell as secular activists and popular bloggers.

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Egypt To Assist Nigeria In Preservation Of Looted Benin Bronzes - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 27, 2022
The artifacts, with the least weight of 30kg each, looted by British troops in 1897, are to be repatriated from Germany to Nigeria this year.
Egypt Minister of Tourism and Antiquties Khaled El-Anany made the offer in Cairo, Egypt when the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed paid him a visit.
The meeting was on the sidelines of a bilateral discussion with Africa Export Import Bank on how Nigeria can access funding to support its growing creative industry.
Mohammed had led some private sector stakeholders involved in Digital Switch Over DSO, to Afreximbank to assist them on how they can source fund to complete the wholly private sector financially driven project.
The Egyptian minister said they were willing to deploy their wealth of experiences in antiquity preservation management to assist Nigeria in preserving the treasure being expected from Germany.

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Egypt To Produce One Billion Covid Vaccines A Year - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 2, 2021
Health Minister Hala Zayed told said that under a deal with the Chinese firm, a factory in the capital, Cairo, would make more than 200 million doses a year for the local needs.
Another factory will produce five times as many for export, mainly to African countries.
So far, only 7.5 million people in Egypt, out of a population of more than 100 million, have received at least one dose.

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Egyptian Club Zamalek Claims Title For CAF Confederation Cup. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 21, 2024
Zamalek headed into the return fixture at the Cairo International Stadium trailing 2-1 from the first leg in Morocco a week ago.
However, Zamalek’s Ahmed Hamdi fired the Egyptians ahead in the 23rd minute to level the tie on aggregate in spectacular fashion.
With the 2-2 aggregate scoreline, the second half became an intense battle for the White Knights as Berkane launched wave after wave of attack in pursuit of a crucial away goal.
But Zamalek’s defence remained resilient under intense pressure in the closing stages to seal a 2-2 aggregate victory on away goals, sparking jubilant celebrations.
The Nuggets became the fifth straight reigning champion to fail to reach the conference finals in their quest to defend their tittle.


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Ehanire Inaugurates Policy Documents To Enhance National Healthcare - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 13, 2023
Speaking at the inauguration, Ehanire said that the documents would provide policy direction on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition.
He said that government was working relentlessly to ensure availability of functional Primary Healthcare Centres PHCs with skilled birth attendants.
The minister said efforts were being made to ensure essential reproductive and maternal health commodities for the provision of voluntary family planning services, quality antenatal care, safe delivery and postnatal care.
According to him, the Federal Government is committed to providing comprehensive and integrated sexual and reproductive health services to all persons, especially adolescents and women.


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Eid-Al-Fitr Celebration: FG Declares Tuesday 4th And Wednesday 5th Public Holidays - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 3, 2019
The Federal Government has declared Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th June, as public holidays to mark the Muslim Eid-Al-Fitr celebration.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Georgina Ekeoma Ehuriah made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement.
She congratulated the Muslim faithful on a successful completion of the Ramadan Fast and enjoined all Nigerians to use the occasion of the celebration to pray for the peace, unity, prosperity and stability of the nation.
Ehuriah admonished Nigerians to shun hate speeches and divisive tendencies and join hands with the Administration of President Buhari to build a peaceful, strong and united Nigeria so as to achieve the next level of socio-economic development.
She reaffirmed the determination of the Government to protect the lives and property of Nigerians, adding that security agencies, under the Ministry, have been directed to ensure the provision of adequate security before, during and after the Eid-Al-Fitri celebration.


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Eid Al-Fitr: Nigerian Government Declares Two Days Public Holidays. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 9, 2024
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who made the declaration on behalf of the Government congratulated all Muslim Ummah for the successful completion of the fasting in the holy month of Ramadan.
Tunji-Ojo calls on Muslim Ummmah to imbibe and practice the virtues of kindness, love, tolerance, peace, good neighbourliness, and compassion as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him).
He urged Nigerians to continue in the spirit of Unity to improve and achieve peace and oneness in the country.
The Minister wishes all Muslim Ummah a happy Eid-al-Fitr celebration and prays that the peace, blessings and favour of Allah be with everyone and our great nation.


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Eid-Eid-El-Maulud: FCT Minister Urges Muslims To Be Peaceful - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 19, 2021
Bello, in his Eid-Eid-el-Maulud message to FCT residents, today in Abuja, felicitated Muslims on the occasion of the commemoration of the birth of Holy Prophet Mohammad.
Bello also urged all Muslims and other residents of the FCT to join Nigerians to reflect deeply on the role they could play individually and collectively to build a nation of which they could be proud of.
Similarly, the minister urged residents to always embrace dialogue in settling differences and reject attempts by unpatriotic individuals or groups to incite unrest which was always counter-productive.
Bello, who reminded residents that the FCT was built on a foundation of unity and tolerance for all Nigerians, said that residents are obliged to imbibe and practice these principles and restated the commitment of the FCT administration to the provision of adequate security during the Maulud celebrations.
He appealed to residents to always cooperate with the security agencies at all time by providing useful information that would assist them in the discharge of their responsibilities.

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Eid-El-Fitir: Kaduna Police To Conduct Elaborate Operations, Checkmate Activities Of Criminal - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 3, 2019
The Kaduna State Police Command on Sunday said it would provide adequate security to checkmate the activities of criminal elements in the state during the forthcoming Eid-eL-fitri.
The State’s Police Commissioner Aliyu Janga who announced this   in a news statement, assured the public  that the command had drawn up  elaborate operation strategies to checkmate  the activities of  would be criminal elements during Eid-eL-fitri throughout the state .
According to Janga, the command has deployed both conventional and mobile policemen as well as undercover operatives to man and monitor key and vulnerable points with a view to ensuring adequate security across the state.
He said, the command once-again reassures the good people of Kaduna State of its readiness to promptly response to distress calls. He urged parent and guardians to be vigilant, monitor and warn their children and wards against the use of all forms of firework known as knockout.


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Eid-El Fitr: Buhari Lauds Nigerians On Peaceful Elections, Urges Religious Harmony - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 4, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressedsatisfaction at the conduct of peaceful elections in Nigeria, despite what hecalled doomsday predictions of social disharmony.
The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Mediaand Publicity Garba Shehu in a statement, said the Buhari made his feelingsknown in a Sallah message to Nigerians to celebrate the end of the Ramadanfasting.
President Buhari commended the Independent NationalElectoral Commission, INEC for a decent job despite the initial difficultiesand praised the voters for their tenacity and strong faith in the democraticprocess.
On the lessons of the Ramadan, Buhari urged Muslimsto always put humanity before personal interests. He said the Ramadan period ismeant to reinforce spiritually, therefore Muslims should use religion as aninspiration to do good at all times.


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Eid-El-Fitr Celebration: Police, NSCDC Deploy Personnel To Ensure Peace In Kano, Borno, Others - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 4, 2019
The Police Command in Kano State says it hasdeployed adequate security personnel across the state to ensure hitch freeSallah celebration.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer AbdullahiHaruna in a statement in Kano said the police would partner with the FederalRoad Safety Corps, FRSC, Nigeria Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, KAROTA, Hisbah andother civil volunteers in the state to enforce traffic regulations and ensurefree flow of vehicles during the celebration.
Also in Borno state, the Police and the NigerianSecurity and Civil Defence Corps , NSCDC said over nine thousand officers hadbeen deployed to provide effective security during the Eid-el-Fitr break inBorno.
The state’s Police Commissioner, Mohammed Aliyureiterated commitment of the force towards ensuring total protection of livesand properties throughout the period.
Similarly, the Borno State Commandant of NSCDC,Ibrahim Abdullahi said the command had deployed its personnel to collaboratewith the police and other security agencies in providing security.


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Eid-El-Fitr: Christian Leaders Felicitate With Muslims - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 4, 2019
The leadership of the Christian Association ofNigeria, CAN has rejoiced with the Muslims on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, acelebration that brings Ramadan to a close.
The Acting General Secretary of CAN, Joseph Daramolain a statement, urged them to continue restraining themselves from ungodlyactivities as commanded by the Qur’an.
He also urged all elected leaders, at all levels, toembrace fairness, equity and justice in all their appointments and governance.
Daramola said everyone has roles to play in thebuilding of a virile nation with stable polity and economic buoyancy.


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Eid-El-Fitr: Emir Sanusi Drums Support For Girl-Child Education - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 4, 2019
The Emir of KanoMuhammadu Sanusi the second has advocated for the rights of the girl-child toeducation.
The first classtraditional ruler made the call while addressing the people of the state,shortly after he led the Eid prayer at the Kofar Mata Central Eid ground inKano. He urged political leaders at all levels to give priority to femaleeducation as they did with their male counterparts.
He underscored theneed for Nigerians to also continue to pray for peace and progress of the stateand the country at large.
The Monarch also urgedMuslims to fear God in all their activities, reminding them that each and everyone of them must give account of his or her deeds hereafter.
Besides, the Emircalled on the people of the state to continue to pray against banditry,kidnapping and other vices. He admonished Kano people to support each other andwork as a team for the overall development of the state.


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Eid El-Fitr: Kaduna Residents Call For More Infrastructures, Stronger Sense Of Security - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 4, 2019
AsMuslims celebrate Eid el-Fitr, some residents of Kaduna have urged the stategovernment to construct more roads and stronger sense of security.
Someresidents said that constructing more roads, more infrastructure, and tacklinginsecurity would open up the city and contribute immensely to the peaceful andjoyful mood of the people.
Abusinessman, Usman Tanko, urged the government to address the issue ofkidnapping, which has instilled fear in the minds of people.
Anotherresident, Shehu Baba, expressed the hope that the sacrificial spirit of Eidel-Fitr would impact the lives of the people and help bring about peace andunity in the country in spite of the diversity of its people.
FrancisEze, a resident spoke of the need for the government to be more committed tosecuring the lives and property of the people.
Onher own part, Aisha Mohammed, a civil servant called on the government toconstruct and renovate roads, especially in the metropolis for more vehicularmovements and economy growth.


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Eid-El-Fitr: Kano, Katsina, Borno Muslims Ignore Sultan, PTF, Storm Prayer Grounds - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 25, 2020
Some Muslims in Kano, Katsina, Borno, Zamfara and Bauchi states on Sunday ignored instruction of the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, which stated that there should be no large gatherings at Eid prayers.
It would be recalled that, Kano, Katsina, Borno and Yobe states, last week relaxed the Federal Government’s lockdown to allow religious body to hold their congregational activities and gave  Muslims the go-ahead to hold prayers at Eid at grounds to mark the end of Ramadan fasting.
The Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA Deputy Secretary General, Salisu Shehu had in a statement said massive gatherings at one Eid ground should be avoided and rather be performed in area Mosques to avoid uncontrollable crowds.
Also, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI Secretary General Khalid Abubakar, had in a statement said, “Eid-el-Fitr congregation on the outskirts of towns and cities should be temporarily suspended and directed Muslims to observe Sallah prayers at home


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Eid-El-Fitr: Plateau Police Ban Commercial Tricycle, As Osun Offers Free Train Ride - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 1, 2019
The Plateau Police Command has deployed over twothousand personnel across the state ahead of Eid-el-Fitr to ensure a hitch-freecelebration.
The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, TernaTyopev who stated this in Jos, said the deployment of the personnel is toensure crime detection and prevention during the period.
He added that the command had placed a ban on thesale and use of fireworks, knockouts, bangers and other explosives during theperiod. The spokesman also announced that the command had banned the operationof commercial tricycles within Jos and Bukuru metropolis during the period,adding that violators would be made to face the wrath of the law.
In another development, the Osun state governmenthas announced that it would provide free train service from Lagos to Osogbo forits indigenes willing to celebrate the Eid-el-Fitr in the state.
The Supervisory Director for Ministry of Finance,and Commerce, Industries and Cooperatives, Bola Oyebamiji announced this in astatement in Osogbo.


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Eid-El-Fitri: Cleric Tasks Muslims On Ramadan Lessons - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 4, 2019
The Chief Imam of theBenin Central Mosque, Abdufatah Enabulele, has called on Muslims to continue toput into practice the lessons they learnt during the period of Ramadan on adaily basis.
Enabulele made thecall in Benin, Edo state while delivery a Sallah message to Muslim faithful atthe Eid prayer grounds.
According toEnabulele, after fasting for one good month, and practice all what is good, atthe same time avoiding all that is evil. He called on all Nigerians to continueto pray for President Buhari and other leaders, for God to grant them wisdom toeffectively pilot the affairs of the nation.
Also the Chief Imam of Uyo Central Mosque, Mohammed Adamu, hascalled on the Federal Government to put in place policies and programmes toimprove the nation’s economy and tackle insecurity in order to reduce thesufferings of Nigerians.
Adamu said this while speaking to newsmen after the Eid el-Fitrprayers to mark the end of Ramadan.


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Eid-El-Kabir: Buhari Departs Abuja For Daura - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 9, 2019
PresidentMuhammadu Buhari on Friday departed Abuja for his hometown, Daura, Katsina Stateto observe the Eid-el-Kabir.
TheFederal Government had on Tuesday declared August 12 and 13 as public holidaysto mark the 2019 Eid-El-Kabir celebration.
PresidentBuhari and members of his family annually observe the Eid-El-Kabir break inDaura, Katsina state.
Thepresident, alongside members of his entourage departed the Presidential Villafor Katsina via the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe InternationalAirport Abuja, after observing the two Raka’at Friday prayer at the State HouseMosque.
Whilein Daura, the president is expected to perform the usual religious obligationof slaughtering rams immediately after the Eid-El-Kabir prayer session onSunday.
Buhariis expected back in Abuja after the Sallah break as he planned to preside overtwo-day induction retreat for Ministers-designate from Aug. 19 to August 20 inAbuja.
Ministers-designateare also expected to be sworn-in by the president on August 21.

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Eid-El-Kabir Celebration: FG Declares July 20, 21 Public Holidays - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 16, 2021
The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, July 20 and Wednesday, July 21, 2021, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration.
Minister Rauf Aregbesola made the declaration on Thursday on behalf of the Federal Government.
He congratulated Muslims in Nigeria and across the world on the celebration.
A statement in Abuja by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Shuaib Belgore, urged Nigerians to observe COVID-19 protocols during the celebration.


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Eid-El-Kabir Celebration: FRSC Deploys Personnel For Special Patrol Nationwide - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 27, 2020
The Corps Public Education Officer Bisi Kazeem who announced this in a statement in Abuja, directed Commanding Officers to collaborate with the COVID-19 Task Force teams and security agencies, to ensure maximum compliance with established rules.
It also noted that orders and directives on physical distancing, compulsory use of face masks and the use of hand sanitizers should be strictly adhered to.
The statement added that the special patrol had commenced since July 22 to July 30.
The Corps Marshal however, maintained that the deployment of personnel is to ensure free flow of traffic, prompt removal of obstructions and timely rescue services, in the event of any road traffic accident.
Oyeyemi outlined the modus operandi for a successful 2020 Eid-el-Kabir celebration and gave commanding officers matching orders to enforce all established laws and orders on safe road use.


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Eid-El-Kabir Festival: Cleric Cautions Muslims Against Slaughtering Deformed Animals - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 10, 2019
AMuslim scholar, Jimoh Abdulwahab has advised adherents against slaughteringdeformed animals for Sallah.
Abdulwahabof Nurulhudda Islamic Centre, who gave the advice in Ilorin, Oyo said onlyhealthy animals free of any deformity and blemish can be used for Sallah.
Thescholar also said that animals that had broken horns were not allowed, addingthat the animals recommended must be healthy. According to Abdulwahab, animalsrecommended for Sallah included rams, camels, cow, goats and sheep.
Healso said that it was forbidden to slaughter animals in the night, in order toavoid slaughtering them improperly, adding that underage and non-knowledgeablepersons were not allowed to slaughter Sallah rams.
Abdulwahab advised that the meat should be divided into three portions, one portion for the family, the second portion for people visiting and the third for people who were unable to slaughter animals for Sallah. He called on Muslim faithful to also extend the Sallah meat to adherents of other religions to demonstrate goodwill and brotherhood.


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Eid-El-Kabir: FG Declares Monday, Tuesday Public Holidays - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 7, 2022
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this in a statement
by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Shuaib Belgore.
Aregbesola, who congratulated all Muslims and Nigerians both at home
and in the Diaspora on the occasion, urged them to use the period to pray
for peace and prosperity for the country.
According to him, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari
is committed to the security of lives and properties of all Nigerians,
empowering the citizens for successful living, the provisions of social
investments programmes and adequate security in the schools.
The minister urged Nigerians to take responsibility by reporting any
suspicious individuals and criminal activities they observed around them
to law enforcement agencies.
He also enjoined Nigerians to be vigilant and observant of intruders in
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Eid-El-Kabir: Forum Urges Muslims To Pray For Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 10, 2019
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF hasenjoined Muslims and Nigerians to pray for the country to overcome the currenteconomic hardship and security challenges bedeviling it.
The Group also appealed to northernyouth to disregard calls for protest against the government even in the face ofhardship, security challenges.
The Forum through its NationalPublicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu stated this in a goodwill message tomark the Eid-el- Kabir celebration in Kaduna.  It also felicitates withMuslim Ummah and all Nigerians on this special occasion of Eid-el-Kabir.
Though the ACF admitted that thingswere hard and the security challenges worsening, it begged Nigerians to bepatient and continue to hope that Nigeria would overcome its challenges.
According to the northern body, it is time for Nigerians to fervently pray for peace, stability, prosperity and avoid any act that will not be helpful.


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Eid-El-Kabir: FRSC Tasks Commercial Motorists On Highway Safety - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 8, 2019
Corps Marshal, Federal Road SafetyCorps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, has urged road users across the country to beconscious of their safety on the highways during the festive period.
Oyeyemi gave the advice at theflag-off ceremony of the 2019 Eid-el-Kabir mega rally campaign organised by thecorps to sensitise drivers and other road users on Thursday at Wazobia park,Gwagwalada in Abuja.
Oyeyemi, who was represented by theCorps Public Education Officer , Bisi Kazeem, said that the campaign had becomeimperative in view of the envisioned increase in vehicular and human movementacross the country.
He added that it was necessary forroad users, especially the commercial drivers, to know basic traffic rules andregulations with a view to reducing crashes on the highways.
Oyeyemi said that the corps had comeout to tackle the situation head-on with commitment and determination asevidenced by the comprehensive measures put in place to address it.

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Eid-El-Kabir: IGP Orders Deployment Of Personnel, Equipment To Public Places - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 9, 2019
TheInspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has ordered the deployment ofadequate personnel and equipment to protect public places throughout theEid-el-Kabir celebration.
Astatement by the Force Public Relations Officer , DCP Frank Mba in a statementon Friday in Abuja, said the IGP assured Nigerians of adequate security before,during and after the celebration.
Mbasaid Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners of Police  in charge of Zones and State Commands had beenmandated to comply with the directive.
Hesaid the deployment would cover shopping malls, motor parks, financialinstitutions, places of worship and recreation centres to enable holidaymakers, worshippers and other Nigerians enjoy optimum safety during the period.
Mbaalso said the IGP directed state Commissioners of Police, including the FCT toput in place strategic and customised security on major highways.
TheForce Public Relations Officer said the idea was to ensure adequate safety fortravelers and other road users.


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Eid El-Kabir: IPAC President Calls For Unity - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 12, 2019
The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC has urgedNigerians to use Eid el-Kabir for promoting peace and unity.
IPAC President Peter Ameh made the call in a statementhe issued on Sunday in Abuja to mark Eid el-Kabir, describing the festival ascrucial part of Islamic faith.
Ameh also urged Nigerians to pray to the AlmightyAllah to grant the nation peace and tranquility.


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Eid-El-Kabir: NSCDC Kaduna Command Warns Criminals To Keep Off The State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 10, 2019
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kaduna State Command has put in place measures to ensure a hitch-free Sallah celebrations and warned individuals who indulge in different crimes to stay clear of the State or face the wrath of the law.
Read This: Eid-El-Kabir: IGP Orders Deployment Of Personnel, Equipment To Public Places
Liberty News Correspondent, Muhammed Idris reportsthat the warning was made by the State Commandant of the NSCDC, BabangidaAbdullahi Dutsima, in an exclusive chat with Liberty News.
Dutsima, who was represented by the Command’sSpokesman, Orndiir Terzungwe said it will do everything possible to apprehendand sanction anyone found culpable. He added that officers and men of theCommand have been properly briefed on how to carry out their duties to be ableto identify and arrest suspected persons who perpetrate any form of illegality.
It also advise parents not to allow their childrento perpetrate acts inimical to well-being of humanity, as no youth will bespared of any sanction if found culpable.